In an world* increasingly obsessed with “cultural appropriation,” trigger warnings, and cancel culture, one can’t help but ...

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Greek tragedy is radical because it does not treat the chorus as passive, but as a surrogate public, a dramatized citizen ...

A Christian empire that inherited classical learning, Byzantium preserved pagan texts via schools, new script, scholia, and ...

Words shape how we think, feel, and connect with others. While common vocabulary allows basic communication, rare and expressive words capture subtle emotions, experiences, and mental states that ...

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The Greek word for "excellence" was mistranslated into Latin as "manliness," and eventually became our word "virtue." ...

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Christianity has been central to Palestine’s political imagination, cultural production and moral vocabulary. It is precisely ...

An old Scots word—originally used in reference to a game of marbles—for a shot in which a player bends down and hurls the ball from between their legs. Thalassocracy is the rule of the sea, used ...

Africa’s name does not descend from the epistemic centers of Athens or Rome. The continent carries a name originating not from Greek philosophers or Roman conquerors, but from the indigenous Amazigh ...

This Christmas is the 500th anniversary of when ordinary men and women could first hear the Christmas story being read from ...